Networks And Job-hunting
(joshua oyakhilome)
he world is full of books about getting a job, and most of them arepreoccupied with the formal aspects of the process: learning about jobopenings, filling out the paperwork, giving a job talk, and that sortof thing. Those formal aspects are important, but you will completelymisunderstand them unless you understand the substance: relationshipsand community-building. Get used to a deep intuition: the right way toget a job is to build a network. Once you build a network, formalthings like jobs just happen. A network is not only a list of peopleyou happen to know, like points that you score in a video game. Anetwork is a circuit through which things flow: ideas, energy,dialogue, information, favors, and so on. Being in dialogue with thepeople in your network means that you have identified values that youshare with them, so that you say "we" and "us". You have chosen themembers of your network precisely because of the values thatyou share in common, and you have taken the trouble to identify thoseshared values and to get a running conversation started that is foundedon them. And in the process you have changed: you have drawn out andarticulated parts of yourself that may not have had any words before.It's still you, but it's a version of you that is defined in part byits relationships to other people. If you have chosen those otherpeople badly then you will be unhappy with your new self. But if youhave done your homework and chosen wisely then you will be thrilled todeath.
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